On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > In BufferSync(), we have this: > >> /* >> * Unless this is a shutdown checkpoint, we write only permanent, >> dirty >> * buffers. But at shutdown time, we write all dirty buffers. >> */ >> if (!(flags & CHECKPOINT_IS_SHUTDOWN)) >> flags |= BM_PERMANENT; > > > That seems bogus to me. We're mixing CHECKPOINT_* flags and buffer BM_* > flags in the same variable. Furthermore, we only use that flags variable to > pass it down to CheckpointWriteDelay(), which only pays attention to > CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE flag. The intention was probably to do "mask |= > BM_PERMANENT" ?
Ouch. Yeah, that's a bug, will fix. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
